Have we returned to wild West?

5:34 PM,
Oct. 24, 2013

Bishop Larry Brandon

Written by

L. Lawrence Brandon
Guest Columnist

Picture it, mid to late 1800s in Wichita, Kan., Tombstone, Ariz., or Deadwood, S.D. Peaceful townsmen and women going about their days, raising decent families and earning an honest day's pay was the norm. Family-owned shops and stores flourishing, minimal crime and disorderly conduct for drunkenness was about the only form of chaos known in those parts.

The locals of those cities and towns were a civilized people and wanted no uncivilized culture to hinder what they viewed as "clean living" or to stop the flow of economic development. Large signs which read, "Leave Your Revolvers at Police ...